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host: robert weissman of private citizen, thanks for your time.e we let you go, you are going to the washington auto show that opens this week. was your point of concern? interesting to see what the carmakers have to show because we are interested in new stuff as anybody. we are concerned how the automakers are trying to curry favor with this administration to roll back fuel efficiency standards. we are focused especially on d, which touts itself as a green company but has really led the way for trying to roll standards back. the consequences for the environment and at the pump are really devastating. host: thank you for your time again. open phones if you want to talk about anything you have heard this morning. (202) 748-8000 for democrats, (202) 748-8001 for republicans, and (202) 748-8002 for independents. the washington auto show does open friday and it's a setup show and a day were politics become involved, where several members of congress and interested parties will talk about policy matters related to the automobile industry. "washington j

. >> i assume that robert mueller, andrew weissman and other special counsel investigators are following the money as we speak. >> there have been contradictory reports about whether deutsche bank has been subpoenaed. but in light of this and everything that's gone on in this investigation, i would be very surprised if these deutsche bank records have not yet been obtained. and that is very important for not just jared kushner but donald trump himself, because so much of his finances were tied up with deutsche bank. >> rebecca bird, the president an extraordinary statement, not a tweet, an official white house statement he responded to the comments in this new book saying this, when he was fired he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. but since he was fired over the summer, he's met with the president, apparently, and spoken with the president. they did have a continuing relationship. >> absolutely. and they continued to speak, as press secretary, sanders acknowledged today, up through december. so they were in touch up until the alabama election. that's when the president started to

and former federal prosecutor, also former federal pros cueser samuel robert mueller from duke university. you know andrew weissman, you worked with andrews weissman who is the prosecutor on the mueller team. i believe we have a picture of the two of you together. he is the one who will likely be questioning the president when this happens. you both look younger now than you did back then -- >> young chaps. >> how do you think the special counsel's team -- maybe your friend, andrew weissman, how do you think they will approach the questioning of the president? >> whenever you go to question sbo somebody who is at the center of an investigation, you wait until you have all your ducks in a row. they've talked to people about the relevant conversations that may have occurred during the transition, around the comey firing, during that period of time. they have flynn cooperating. presumably have a lot of information from him. they've looked at lots of e-mails and documents. they're hoping by the time you sit down and talk to that witness, you've got the witness fairly boxed in. they're not going to give you their own v

during the meeting with reporters, andrew weissman, the number one guy appointed by robert mueller, head of the justice department fraud division, then later, not long after, joined mueller's investigation to look into paul manafort, the next month. acourting to sara carter's reporting aeissmann told his superiors about the meeting with the a.p. and he wasn't working on the manafort case and didn't have access to documents related to it. here's the thing, weissmann was discussing paul manafort with the reporters and joined mueller's team where he's leading the case against manafort. now, he was prejudging the case, prejudiced. massive conflict of interest. we obviously see what's going on here. and then there's weissmann's disturbing history. why would robert mueller ever appoint this guy that led the obstruction of justice case against arthur andersen accounting and the enron scandal, tens of thousands of people lost their jobs. they're out of business. thank you weissmann. the supreme court overturned a ruling 9-0 in the case. his job was a mess. people, by the way, exculpatory evidenc

no way reflective of robert mueller and his team assembled have been assembled with the reflection of bias. our concern is that bias is reflected in whether it's andrew weissman's in the team or the various people that defended the clinton foundation. we say it ought to be fair and it doesn't seem to be that way. >> other republicans feel strongly about the same issues as you do think otherwise. they're voicing their confidence in robert mueller. well, here's a few examples. let's listen. >> i think mr. mueller is the perfect guy to get to the bottom of all of this and he will. and i think my job, among others, is to give him the space to do it. i intend to do that. i've got legislation protecting mr. mueller, and i'll be glad to pass it tomorrow. >> it would certainly wouldn't hurt to put that extra safeguard in place given the latest stories. >> do you still trust after all you've heard, do you still trust special counsel robert mueller to conduct a fair and unbiased investigation? >> 100%, particularly if he's given the time, the resources and the independence to do his job. >> i mean trey gowdy, no friend of democrats. why are you on a different side of thi